# Caíque Coelho — Full Profile

## 1. Summary
- Name: Caíque Coelho (also written Caique Coelho)
- Current title: Senior QA Automation Engineer (SDET) at Raidiam
- Experience: 9+ years in software engineering, 8+ in test automation and quality architecture.
- Location: São Paulo, Brazil. Relocating to the UK, the Netherlands or Spain; needs visa sponsorship.
- Headline result: built LLM agents for QA that cut release validation from ~2 hours to ~10 minutes.
- Contact:
  - Email: caiquedpfc@gmail.com
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caiquecoelho
  - GitHub: https://github.com/CaiqueCoelho
  - Portfolio: https://caique-coelho.web.app
  - Resume (PDF): https://caique-coelho.web.app/Caique-Coelho-Senior-SDET-Resume.pdf

## 2. What he is looking for
- Job titles: Senior SDET, Staff SDET, Software Engineer in Test, QA Automation Engineer, Quality Engineer, Test Automation Lead.
- Locations:
  - United Kingdom — London. Needs Skilled Worker visa sponsorship.
  - Netherlands — Amsterdam. Needs Highly Skilled Migrant sponsorship.
  - Spain — Madrid or Barcelona. Needs a sponsored work visa.
  - Remote — UK/EU time zones.
- Employment type: full-time.
- Languages: Portuguese (native), English (professional working proficiency), Spanish (intermediate).

## 3. Skills

### Test automation
- Playwright, Cypress (E2E and Component Testing), Selenium, Appium, Robot Framework.
- Unit and component: Vitest, Jest, React Testing Library, Testing Library for Vue, MSW.
- API and contract: PACT, Postman, Supertest, Joi, REST / OpenAPI validation.
- Visual, performance and accessibility: Percy, k6, Locust, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, axe.
- Test management and traceability: Xray, qase.io, cypress-grep.

### AI-native quality engineering
- LLM agents and multi-agent workflows on Claude, Claude Code and AWS Bedrock.
- MCP servers connecting agents to Jira/Confluence, GitHub, Jenkins and Playwright.
- What the agents do: generate test plans and test cases from Jira tickets, pull requests and OpenAPI specs; read the diff to pick the tests a change needs; validate conformance logs against specifications; audit releases; split product bugs from test gaps; draft Jira tickets with evidence.

### CI/CD and cloud
- GitHub Actions, Jenkins (parameterised jobs), GitLab CI, Drone.
- Docker, Terraform, AWS (SSM, KMS, S3).
- Parallel and selective test execution to keep feedback fast.

### Security and standards
- OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), FAPI, mTLS, PKI, JWKS.
- OpenID Foundation Conformance Suite; Open Finance Brasil, Open Insurance, Open Banking.

### Programming languages and stacks
- TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, Kotlin, Ruby.
- Vue, React, Node, Spring, Flask, Android (MVP / MVVM, Dagger, RxJava).
- Observability and data: Grafana, Sentry, Kibana, Metabase, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Firebase.

## 4. Experience

### Raidiam — Senior QA Automation Engineer (SDET)
Nov 2023 – Present · Remote from São Paulo · UK-headquartered trust infrastructure for Open Banking and Open Finance
- Owns test automation strategy, frameworks and tooling for Open Finance and Open Insurance certification products, validating FAPI, OIDC and mTLS flows against the OpenID Foundation Conformance Suite and OpenAPI specs.
- Built a library of Claude Code agents wired in through MCP servers that cut release validation from ~2 hours to ~10 minutes.
- Leads web automation in Playwright and Cypress with TypeScript; migrated the E2E suite to TypeScript and rebuilt it around cypress-grep and Xray on GitHub Actions.
- Rebalanced an E2E-heavy suite into a test pyramid with Vitest, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress Component Testing and Percy visual regression.
- Built a repeatable onboarding process for new client environments (Terraform, AWS SSM, parameterised Jenkins jobs) and automated API and certificate contract checks (PKI, JWKS, token endpoints).
- Mentors QAs across squads.

### Inventa — SDET Lead
Apr 2022 – Oct 2023 · São Paulo · B2B wholesale marketplace
- Led a team of 6 SDETs: mentoring, development plans and technical direction.
- Designed the test automation strategy and built the Cypress framework, with smoke and regression suites gating releases through qase.io.
- Ran performance testing with k6 and Locust; monitored production with Grafana and Sentry.
- Owned defect triage with engineering, product and business analysts.

### Zé Delivery (AB InBev) — Senior Software QA Engineer
Nov 2021 – Apr 2022 · São Paulo · Brazil's largest beverage delivery platform
- Cut flaky tests by ~60% and CI pipeline time by ~50% by stabilising E2E tests and moving coverage down the test pyramid.
- Introduced contract testing with PACT, API tests with Postman, Joi and Supertest, and performance tests with k6.
- Coached engineers on when to use each type of test; mentored junior QAs.

### QuintoAndar — Senior Software QA Engineer
Nov 2018 – Nov 2021 · São Paulo · Latin America's largest real-estate rental platform
- Built and scaled E2E and component automation with Cypress through 3 years of hypergrowth, and enabled developers to write their own tests.
- Defined and monitored production quality metrics with Grafana, Sentry, Kibana and Metabase.
- Owned risk-based test planning, exploratory testing and bug tracking end to end.

### Jera — Android Developer / QA Analyst
Jun 2017 – Oct 2018 · Campo Grande, Brazil
- Android Developer (Jan – Oct 2018): native Android apps in Java and Kotlin (MVP / MVVM, Dagger, RxJava).
- QA Analyst (Jun – Dec 2017): test automation with Selenium and Ruby; acceptance criteria with customers.

### NTI UFMS — Software Engineering Intern
Nov 2016 – Jun 2017 · Campo Grande, Brazil

## 5. Open source, products and community
- Cypress (cypress-io/cypress) — merged PR #28256: fix for inverted tag and grep untagged.
- huskyCI (globocom/huskyCI) — PR #578: tools version check.
- Cy.Pronauts — Cypress.io ambassador program.
- DISC Board — founder; full-stack platform for DISC behavioural profiles (Nov 2024 – Present).
- Enneagram Test — Android app and PWA, 400,000+ downloads.
- Retrospective Twitter — PWA, 500,000+ users.

## 6. Education and certifications
- B.Sc. in Computer Science — Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), 2013 – 2018. Thesis: AI model to estimate development effort for new software features.
- Test Automation University (Applitools) — 7,975 credits, Phoenix rank.
- Introduction to Machine Learning — Duke University (2021).
- Artificial Intelligence — Huawei (2021).
- AI training course — Instituto Federal de Alagoas (2021).
- Scrum Foundation Professional Certificate (SFPC) — CertiProf.

## 7. Awards
- Facebook Testathon 2019, São Paulo — best product insight.
- Amazon Alexa Skill Builder — 2x incentive certificate winner.